30 DEAD, 1,200 HURT IN HAVANA STORM; ALL SAFE IN MIAMI
EUGENE DEBS DIES IN FAMILY'S MIDST
POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF KLAN DISCLOSED
The Evening Star of October 21, 1926, led with an Associated Press dispatch from Havana. It reported that a Caribbean hurricane had killed perhaps more than 30 people, injured about 1,200 and caused an estimated $30,000,000 in damage. The storm had sunk vessels in the harbor and wrecked the monument to the Maine's dead, while Americans and Miami were reported safe. From Chicago came word that Eugene V. Debs, five times the Socialist presidential candidate, had died peacefully among family and party leaders, days after scrawling the closing lines of "Invictus." A second Chicago report gave testimony to the Senate campaign fund committee by Indiana's Klan grand dragon, who said he faced removal for refusing to back Klan-approved candidates. The same column then carried part of a tariff story: the President and Secretary Mellon set out the government's position on a bankers' manifesto against trade barriers.
Three Air Officers Held for Killing of Frank Browder
Klan Supporting James E. Watson, Witness Charges
Noted Socialist Leader Succumbs; Is Silent in Death
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page of October 21, 1926, gave prominent space to a local tragedy: three lieutenants from Maxwell Field were held on voluntary manslaughter charges after Frank G. Browder, an 83-year-old Confederate veteran, was struck dead by a low-flying plane in a cotton field east of the city. The base commander refused the sheriff's request to hand over one of them, and the paper laid out the flight records and witness statements against each pilot. From Chicago it carried testimony before the Senate campaign funds committee that the Ku Klux Klan was backing Indiana Senators James E. Watson and Arthur Robinson, including a former Klan officer's account of a $10,000 offer and the warning that "the good die young." An AP dispatch reported the death of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs in a suburban Chicago sanitarium.
TREWARTHA IS UNABLE TO ACCEPT NOMINATION, GOES TO TELL LEADER
30 Dead, Thousands Are Hurt
SCOTS WOULD RESTRICT IMMIGRATION FROM ERIN
The London Evening Advertiser of October 21, 1926, led this reading with Ontario's liquor fight. Clinton sources said Mr. Trewartha, a dry Conservative backbencher and former Huron County warden, had gone to Toronto to tell Premier Ferguson that he could not again accept the party nomination or back the government's liquor policy, following Attorney-General W. F. Nickle's resignation; a party official denied knowing of other defections. A wire report described a hurricane that struck Havana, killing 30, injuring thousands, razing the USS Maine monument and wrecking shipping in the port. A Glasgow dispatch reported a push to have Parliament limit Irish Free State immigration into Scotland.
This page of the Vossische Zeitung for 21 October 1926 placed the opening of the Imperial Conference in London next to the international business world's call for free trade. From London, its correspondent reported that the conference had decided at its first session not to publish Chamberlain's foreign-policy speech or the Dominion prime ministers' statements on British foreign policy since 1923, and he read this secrecy as a sign of delicate disagreements. From Paris, the paper reported that the International Chamber of Commerce had endorsed the world economic leaders' manifesto for restoring freedom of trade. From Geneva, it reported that League of Nations circles welcomed the manifesto. It noted that members of the League's Economic and Financial Committee were among the signatories, and that League circles hoped the many British signatures would sway a hesitant British government before the 15 November preparatory talks for an international economic conference.
The Radical-Socialist Party for Revision of the Versailles Treaty
The Neue Freie Presse of 21 October 1926 led with a relieved report from the Austrian National Council, where Ignaz Seipel, back as federal chancellor, gave a programme speech that the paper read as a clear break with corruption: deputies' interventions with officials were to be listed, the incompatibility law tightened, peace and friendship with Germany pursued and budget surpluses used for tax relief. The paper stressed that Mayor Seitz did not doubt Seipel's sincerity, while warning that rules alone could not replace public spirit. A Bucharest telegram reported the royal household's denial that ex-crown prince Carol would be reinstated as heir, and noted that it left open a return as a member of the regency council. A Dresden telegram quoted German interior minister Külz citing a memorandum by fifty French Radical-Socialists that envisaged revising Versailles, including the Polish Corridor and Danzig.
The Prager Tagblatt of 21 October 1926 led with the Czechoslovak Chamber of Deputies' approval of Antonín Švehla's new Czech-German government. Its news report gave the result after a three-day debate, 159 votes to 113, explained that the finance minister's exposé would be voted on only after the budget debate, and listed the few absentees, among them twelve Communists, the four Hungarian Christian Socialists and the deputy Stříbrný. Beside it, an editorial urged the coalition not to celebrate its success loudly and so provoke its numerous opponents, a warning addressed to those who prized the cabinet's multilingualism as its best quality. From Budapest the paper reported that the Hungarian National Assembly had begun debating a law creating a new upper house to replace the old House of Magnates, its subheadings mentioning 35 representatives of the hereditary magnates and the Hungarian members of the House of Habsburg.
The Journal de Genève of 21 October 1926 led with a letter from its London correspondent on Lord Oxford's resignation as Liberal leader. The letter praised H. H. Asquith as the last great orator of the Commons and as the prime minister of the pre-war social insurance, pensions and House of Lords reforms. It traced the Liberal Party's unhealed split back to 1916, when Lloyd George took his place, and set out both camps' views of that episode. A column from Berne mocked Federal Councillor Schulthess for campaigning hard for the grain monopoly he had condemned in December 1924. A long obituary honoured the Genevan Egyptologist Edouard Naville. It described his training under Lepsius, his edition of the Edfu Horus texts and his 1886 edition of the Book of the Dead, prepared with his wife's drawings.
Politika's page of 21 October 1926 carried a signed column by the engineer Drag. M. Branković, "European and Our Housing Policy", which argued that since the war the housing question had shifted from a matter of quality to a sheer shortage of buildings. He blamed returning soldiers, prisoners and refugees, émigrés from revolutionary Russia, resettlement after border changes and new marriages, set against weak post-war building, and cited Vienna, where vacant flats fell from 1.39 percent in 1914 to none in 1923 while 50,000 people sought housing. The same page ran an instalment of a memoir whose second section, on King Milan's final departure abroad, argued that Milan had begun breaking with his earlier political convictions long before the Ivanjdan assassination attempt, with the change already visible at his abdication.
The accumulation of money in the banks is degenerating to a worrying degree.
It is harder to get the better of home distilling than of smuggling,
Aftenposten of 21 October 1926 reported the closing meeting of Oslo's election board under Mayor Høe, which confirmed the capital's final count in the prohibition referendum: two absentee votes from abroad raised the total against prohibition to 103,527. The paper also warned that money was piling up in the banks to a worrying degree, quoting a bank circular that told a depositor no interest at all would be paid from the 18th of the month. A third, badly legible report argued that home distilling was harder to stamp out than smuggling and said a position would be taken on a reduction for control and supervision, also mentioning the next budget year.
EDUCATIONAL EVENING IN THE G. H. L. WARD BUILDING, LANGESTRAAT.
This Leiden daily's front page combined city business with news of lectures. A heading marked the death of M. Joustra, and the text that follows it in the selection is the end of a Leiden council agenda. The items include a building deposit linked to a renovation, an amendment to the 1923 elementary-school ordinance, the sale of building land on the Schelpenkade, a re-vote on hospital-care tariffs, and a plan for 20 ground-floor and 20 upper-floor municipal dwellings south of the Haagweg to rehouse people from homes declared uninhabitable. After a jubilee report on the popular “Thomas”, the paper announced that the German philosopher Reinhard Strecker would lecture in the university towns from 1 to 9 November at the invitation of the National Committee against Alcoholism. A report on an educational evening explained how a typesetter's mistake had turned J. T. de Ren's talk on “the education of the will” into an announced talk on “the education of the military”.
Sun's Army Sends 8 Trains Toward Zhejiang Yesterday
Gunboats Head for Songjiang
Whether Shanghai–Songjiang Passenger Trains Will Run Is Undecided
This page of the Shanghai Shibao followed Sun Chuanfang's move against Xia Chao's revolt in Zhejiang. A Far Eastern News Agency item said Director-General Ding had received a conciliatory telegram from Xia in Hangzhou that blamed a "misunderstanding" and asked the front to stop advancing, though the paper left any decision to Sun. The paper then listed, train by train, how some 6,500 troops loaded into 157 cars at New Longhua left for Songjiang on 20 October, while men and munitions came in from Nanjing, Zhenjiang and Nantong. Shorter items covered warships at Gaochangmiao, Zhejiang troops halted at Changxing, wealthy families leaving the area, and the still-undecided restart of Shanghai–Songjiang passenger trains, which had been stopped for five days.
List of Books Sold on Commission by This Paper's Publishing Section
This partial reading of the Shijie Ribao (World Daily) of 21 October 1926 centres on an advertisement for the monthly bound volume of the paper's supplement. The ad put its editor first, Peking University professor Dr. Liu Bannong, and boasted of learned contributors, fine printing and binding unlike crudely bound old newspapers, and about 120 pages with more than 150 pieces per volume. It promised equal weight to scholarship and interest and urged young people to keep a copy for after-class reading, followed by a garbled contents list that seems to include Indian fables and translated songs. Two small notices, one from the lawyer Gao Rang and a list of books the paper's publishing section sold on commission, survive only as fragments with issue numbers and the word for the Commercial Press.
The Committee That Will Report on the Accusation Against the Minister of the Interior
La Nación of Santiago featured a confrontation between the War Minister and the Chamber of Deputies on its 21 October 1926 front page. A cabinet declaration, agreed unanimously under the President, insisted that the minister had rightly protested against deputies who insulted the Army and had meant no threat to Parliament, while urging party leaders to help restrain “disruptive elements” sheltering behind parliamentary immunity. Alongside it, the paper printed Chamber president Gumucio's speech recounting how the minister was called to order and walked out, then released an unread portion that, in Gumucio's view, offended and threatened Congress, a body with no material means to defend itself. A third item reported that the committee examining a constitutional accusation against the Interior Minister had read a police chief's report backing the minister on a detention order and was seeking a unanimous single report.
Havana hurricane caused 30 deaths and more than 1200 injuries
Chile's railway workers threaten a general strike
Christ is a symbol of love and mercy
Crítica's page of 21 October 1926 gave prominent space to Associated Press dispatches on the hurricane that struck Havana the day before. It gave an official toll of thirty dead and three hundred injured, then an estimate of more than thirty dead and 1,200 injured, and described flooded low-lying districts, collapsed houses, the destroyed Maine monument and President Machado's order to shoot looters without warning, adding that Miami escaped serious damage. From Santiago, Chilean railway workers authorized their confederation to call a general strike once it had presented new demands, including the removal of retirement-fund director Róbinson Paredes. From Mexico City, Education Minister Puig praised Christ as a moral symbol but refused to allow his image in classrooms, blaming Catholic leaders for the rebellion.
Il Piccolo's front page of 21 October 1926 led with General Umberto Nobile's lecture of more than two hours in Rome on the Norge transpolar flight. In it he recalled foreign skepticism, his fear of being remembered as a madman if the flight failed, and the trust of the King and Mussolini, who kissed him at Ciampino on the eve of departure. From London the paper reported Marconi's new directional wireless system, which promised 250 words a minute to Canada and lifted Marconi shares. It also covered the divided British press reaction to an international bankers' manifesto for free trade, which the Conservative Morning Post judged ill-timed because it came out on the day the Imperial Conference met.